The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-24
IN THE LABOR WORLD.
ITEMS ROM ALI POTXxs or INarBRBsT
TO woe WORKERS.
What Is GOInE on In the Nation, and In the
State, and City, among those Sehs
Make their Living by the sweat Of their
BFoW.
GENEBAL.

Germania Assembly, 1888, Knights OF
Labor, Wilmington, has dlsbanded be-
cause of the order prohibiting the use of
Intoxicating beverages at picnics and en-
teri innents.
The custom cutters concluded their con-
vention in Chicago Friday night. after
adopting a new nRme-the Custom Fore
mems Tailor Association of Am RIGA. the
next meeting viii be held in Chicago in
January.
The Miners Amalgamated Association
and the Knights of Labor miners hold con-
vsntions at Scottdals, Pa. yesterday, and
resolved to resume work on condition that
the coke operators will meet their commit
tees to arrange scale of wages.
The Pittsburgh coke strike just ended
was one Of the ssost stubbornly contested
battles ever fought between capital and
labor. 1t went on for eleven weeks and
four days. The amount of money lost by
the long idleness eannst be accurately
calculated, butt runs up into the millions.
At the annual meeting in Pittsburgh Fri
day Of District Assembly 3, Knights Of
Labor, comprising all assemblies in Al
leghsAy County, four delegates 10 the
General Assembly who are favorable to
Pswasriy we're chosen. The consideration
Of he new constitution eaussd lively
discussion and developed che fast that
msjosity Of the KnighM Of that district are
opposed - it.
8ksss 10 IN unusual scarcity of wage.
vsrAsss - Fort W~yxs. lad. Yhs bssss
fsAAlsy and msohiHs wssks have ssAeA
ne Kov York CsmnMioAscs Of HmiupA
don - ssAd them ascend lob Of ffsy hdR-
ere for their FORCES. The ReaAingten ma
~ ~ - a.
Atsy MsshiAists. The read nssAsRs end
supervisors Of rsilrosds lad their track
vork ssnsly smbaxsaasSA by the vaAt Of
help, and the unusuA amcunt of building
and street paving is making demands for
labor vhieh cannot be Supplied.
General MAstsr-wsrknan Powderly, in
the journal of United Ls6or, published st
Philadelphia, referring 10 the recent eer-
ners in coffee and wheat, says
Tia lsssoH taught our members By the expert.
szcs 10 10 keep their eyes spsn, and to keep ihsm
turAeA toward the Produce Exchanges Of New
Ysrk, Chicago and ether large sisies. aud the nae
cards sad announces that there IL q scarcity in .
certain article of food-$hat the price goes mp in
ecAseauenee--svery member should resolve. and
resolve en-. loud. that und1 the unhalleweA hand
Of the Spectator has removed from the control Of
the article in question not . pound or an ounce
more than avoided will be purchased This
may be regarded In the light 81 o boycott noHce-
that il exactly what I intended it for; and had I
the power invested in nae to make the order impsr-
alive would order every member, far As 1t lies
In his power, to place an eternal boycott on every
grain and stock gambler In the United States and
Canada.
The Nineteenth Annual Congress of
the English Co-operators " as lately hell
at Carliole, England. The presidential adj
dress, delivered by Mr.. George Jacob
Holyoake, showed what had been done for
the English industrial classes by co-opara.
ton. "Fhey now own land" the president
said, "they own streets OF dwellings, and
almost townships they own vast and
sta9ely warehouses in Manchester, in Lon
don, on Newcastle-on Tyne and in Glas-
gov. They own bank whose transactions
amount to el6,000,000 (s80,oo0, 0O0) ;
year. They possess more than l 400
stores, which do business of over $780,
600 600 year ; they own share capital of
e9 $40 900 in amount, and are making now
for their 800, 900 members more than e.
600 900 of profit annually. The mighty
power of cooperation has enabled the
working class in the LIST twenty-five years
from 1861 to. l886-to do business of
e361 900, 900 Isl, sos 600 0OO), giving them
a profit of nearly e29 500, 900 (S147, 500,-
000l. Nor do these figures measure the
activity, the extent or character of CO.
operators. Their splendid Wholesale So
ciety have buying stations in the chief
markets of Europe and America. Their
ships are on the sea. The lifeboats they
have given ride on our coasts. They
aided in establishing Mississippi Tradine
Company. They have invested ESQ, 000
in the Manchester canal"
Friday saw the wind-up of the conven-
ton of District 80, Knights of Labor, at
Fall River, Mass. At the opening of the
morning session there was lively debate
as to eligibility of John I. Short. one OF
the delegates elected yesterday. The new
constitution provides that dele gate to the
General Assembly must have been mem.
Der of the order for eighteen months and
have attended three quarterly conventions.
Short will not have been a member
eighteen months until September, and ii
was claimed that on that ground he could
not serve as delegate. In case
Short, who is mild administration nan,
should be declared ineligible, Geo. E. Nc
Neil, the first alternate, and one of the
Anti-administration leaders, would serve
in his place. The District Master Work
man decided that Short Was eligible, but an
appeal was taken, and the matter goes tc
Grand Master Workman Fowderly. From
his decision an appeal can be taken to tbs
General Executive Board, and from there
to the General Assembly. Charles Fl.
Litchman, who is an administration man
himsslf, but is probably better informed rs
to Knights of Labor Law than any one else
at the coyention, says Short is not eligible.
The final decision will decide great many
cases of similar nature, and if it is in
favor of Short several assemblies which
nave already elected delegates will recall
some of them and substitute others who
had supposed themselves ineliGible. Iu
cass an appeal ia taken to the General Az.
sembly lively time is anticipated.
STATE,
In Newark 1so. ooe corkscrews are
manufactured every year.